US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on July 1 for "Techniques for determining dialysis patient profiles" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,464, issued on July 1, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Techniques for determining dialysis patient profiles" was invented by Nadja Grobe (Huntington, N.Y.), Peter Kotanko (New York), Xia Tao (West New York, N.J.) and Stephan Thijssen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for determining a peritoneal transport status of a patient based on mass analyzing low volumes of peritoneal dialysis (PD) effluent to generate patient information that may be evaluated using PD effluent fingerprints to determine peritoneal transport characteristics of the patient are describ...